Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"To err is human. I had what at the time seemed like a good idea as to how to expand health care coverage, but it turned out wrong. I'll take part of the blame, but others who acted beyond my control also share in the blame. The key thing is to learn from mistakes, not to compound them. That is a lesson I have learned."

"Unfortunately, the Obama administration does not learn from its mistakes. Stimulus, health care, debt, deficits, spending out of control. The response is a refusal to learn from mistakes or to accept responsibility, at all."

"You have a choice in this election. Elect a President who learns from mistakes and accepts responsibility, or re-elect a President who is incapable of learning from mistakes or accepting responsibility. The choice is yours."

It works for me. Who better to contest an ill-conceived piece of legislation than one who has learned from the lessons of his past. No one on the Republican side is better positioned to rationally contest the failings of Obama Care.

It would be a Clintonesque type of move .. the ability to move beyond one's initial ideology.

Okay Mitt, come back and fix this pile of !@#$. Oh that's right your long gone now. So much for the responsibility part.

Hey Mitt, how about take a number at the local ER and get in line with the non-taxpayers and illegals, because we're all the SAME NOW but WE'RE NOT, when it costs me $1200.00 out of pocket cash a month for my family of 4. Are you gonna help me next year when all the premium does is go up? In whole it's $25,000+ and rising.

How about the months you have to wait for appointments because their aren't enough PRIMARY CARE DOCTORS and their full up and tell you to go to the ER for minor healthcare issues. Whose benefitting from that?

I'll stop because noone is listening to me and Mitt, I'll never vote for you until you fix this little mistake called my healthcare. You'll promise and never deliver. That fish wrap Globe article was a feel good joke on conservatives.

I can't believe the Massachusetts Tea Parties would indorse you anyway.

It doesn't work for me because Romneycare, bad as it is turning out to be, is not why I stopped supporting him for President: I stopped supporting him when he declined to run for a second term in the Democratic year of 2006.

Had he bucked the odds and beaten Obama buddy Deval Patrick, Romney would be President today IMO.

2. But your post implies a related point: after a reform of the magnitude of Romneycare, Romney should have stuck around to oversee its implementation and try to correct any negative unintended consequences.

3. The foregoing goes double for Palin, who not only did not run for reelection but walked out in the middle of her term.

In her resignation speech, Palin stated that an ethics law that she had "championed" was being used to harass her--yet afaik she made no effort, before or after her resignation, to rectify the deficiency in the legislation she had pushed.

4. If Palin gets the nomination, she might pick Romney for VP to put some executive experience on the ticket & attract independent voters. I haven't thought through my reaction.

If Romney were nominated, would he emulate McCain? Would Palin agree to run for VP twice? I have no idea.

Say you're a conservative looking at the number of people who are not covered by health insurance. Say you believe in the free market, individual freedoms, and the American Dream. Say you run a state (commonwealth) in which most of the people who are not covered are illegal aliens. Say you know that. Say you then come up with a wonderful plan to force every tax paying citizen to purchase health insurance or pay a fine to the state (commonwealth) for not doing so, and then you set up a government healthcare agency to work in tandem with the state (commonwealth) income tax office to ensure that everyone is "paying their fair share" of this shiny new entitlement.

At what point in that thought process have you STOPPED being a conservative?

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